Wheel



(No Model.)

S. T. WILLIAMS.

WHEEL. No. 305,771. r Patented Sept. 30, 1884;

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SAMUEL T. \VILLIAMS, OF RED BANK, ASSIGNOE TO THE \VILLIAMS TEN-S10 \VHEEL COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

- WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,771, dated September 30, 1884.

Application filed February 14, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: holes in the rim-flange and securely bound to- 3 Be it known that I, SAMUEL T. WrLLIAMs, gether. The hub-halves O O are connected a citizen of the United States, residing at Red by a number of screws or screw-bolts, T, hav- Bank, in the county of Monmouth and State of ing handle-heads or thumb-pieces T, and dis- 5 New Jersey, have invented certain new and posed with respect to the halves to obtain the useful Improvements in Wheels, of which the necessary leverage. These screws are swiv- 40 following is afull, clear, and exact description. eled in one of the hub-halves, and engage This invention relates to that class of wheels screw-threaded holes in the other half, so that in which the spokes are of wire, and are adaptby rotating them the movable hub-half may ed to be stiffened by tension applied to them. be caused to approach to or recede from the The invention consists in means for applyother to vary their distance apart, and conse- 5 ing tension to such wire-spoked wheels, subquently diminish or increase the tension on stantially as hereinafter specified and claimed. the spokes, by distcnding said spoke-loops less In the accompanying drawings, in the two or more by the proximity of the said halves I 5 figures of which similar letters of reference incarrying them. Increasing the tension on the dicatclikeparts,Figurelisahorizontal crossspokes of course increases the stiffness and 0 section of the rim and a plan view of the hub augments the stability of the wheel. of a wheel constructed in accordance with my What I claim as my invention, and desire to present improvement; and Fig. 2, a side elevasecure by Letters Patent, is tion thereof, the rim being removed. The combination, with the rim and sleeveE The wheel, as in the parent invention shown and the fixed disk and movable disk having in my application No. 88,695, filed February holes h, of the wires or spokes B, made as 1, 1883, has aT-shaped rim, AA, wire spokes loops, each passed through opposite aligned B, and a hub composed of parallel halves C 0, holes in the two disks and then secured to the 2 one of which is adapted to be moved toward or rim, and the screws T, for varying the proxfrom the other. The spokes are wire loops imity of the disks to vary the tension of the passed through the halves of the hub, and sespokes, substantially as shown and described. cured to the flange or felly of the rim. In this In testimony whereof I have hereunto set invention the halves G C of the hub are disks my hand this 9th day of February, A. D. 1884.

o fixed against rotation,but one ofwhichis adapt- 3 ed to slide on a sleeve, E, rotating on or with SAMUEL TILLIAMS the axle 1). Near the rims d of these disks are \Vitnesses: holes h, through which the looped wire spokes ARTHUR C. WVEBB, are passed, and then their ends passed through ERNEST G. \VEBB. 

